No, I didn’t really buy a new car, just some Photoshop fun. A candy company has a competition and I thought about that for a while and took the first picture. The idea was to use “forced perspective”, a technique often used in movies to trick the eye. The candy car is probably to small for it to work though, so I had to turn to Photoshop.

There was however an advantage to shoot on the spot as I got the light right. That is usually the hardest part to fake. I used the macro lens with a small aperture to get as much as possible of the car in focus. Then I took a picture of my parking space with the timer so I could put myself in the picture. To get the right depth of field I used a blur filter over half the image.

Pleased with myself I read the rules again. You’re supposed to take a picture of your fastest Ferrari. So I had to start over. Here I added a few layers in low opacity of the back of the car and added dashes of color to simulate speed. This time it took some “acting” skills on my behalf to sell the picture. I wonder what the neighbors thought…

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